Fashionable Meaning
/ˈfæʃənəbl̩/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjCharacteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue.
adjEstablished or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
Sentence Examples
Thus, internationalization has become a fashionable slogan for the Japanese.
There have always been fashionable faces and expressions which marked an epoch.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She wore a ____ hat to the charity gala event.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Bell-bottom jeans were very ____ in the 1970s, but they are much less common today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English fashion Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English fashionable From fashion + -able.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"For time is like a faſhionable Hoſte / That ſlightly ſhakes his parting Gueſt by th'hand;"
— c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], column 1:
"Just as I was stepping up to offer my hand to a very pleasing and witty fashionable, the brilliant and exclusive Mrs. Rawdon Crawley,"—he wrote […]"
— 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
"We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom."
— 1860, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI.:
"In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes."
— 1891, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), “At the Shrine of St. Wagner”, in What Is Man? and Other Essays:
"A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables, to enchant the yokelry with their splendor."
— 1991 September 20, George Grass, “Star Show”, in Chicago Reader:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She wore a ____ hat to the charity gala event.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Bell-bottom jeans were very ____ in the 1970s, but they are much less common today.